Entertainment scene

FILE - This Feb. 26, 2012 file photo shows Miley Cyrus, right, and Liam Hemsworth at the Vanity Fair Oscar party in West Hollywood, Calif. The couple who met on the set of that movie in 2009 announced their engagement Wednesday morning. Publicist Jeff Raymond confirms a People Magazine report of the news. Hemsworth, the 22-year-old Australian star of "The Hunger Games," and Cyrus, the 19-year-old "Hannah Montana" star and singer, were engaged on May 31. Hemsworth proposed with a 3.5-carat diamond ring, People reports. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, file)

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FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2011 file photo, actor Jason Sudeikis arrives at the premiere of the feature film "Hall Pass" in Los Angeles. Sudeikis will host the MTV Movie Awards on June 5. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg, file)

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FILE - This Dec. 15, 2012 file photo shows singer Lady Gaga performing at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J. Lady Gaga says she's completed surgery to fix her hip. The singer posted on her blog late Wednesday that she had hip surgery and that it �happened so fast.� She canceled her "Born This Way Ball" tour last week. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, file)

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FILE - This is a May 16, 2004, file photo showing Elin Nordegren, Tiger Woods finance, looking on as Woods putts on the third green during the Byron Nelson Championship, in Irving, Texas. The Woods sex scandal has indeed struck a particularly raw nerve in Sweden, where Nordegren's transition from being a nanny for golfer Jesper Parnevik to the wife of one of the world's most famous athletes was long seen as a fairy-tale romance. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)

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Actress Jessica Alba arrives at the ALMA Awards in Santa Monica, Calif., Saturday, Sept. 10, 2011. The 2011 NCLR ALMA Awards are held to honor those who promote "fair, accurate and balanced" portrayals of Latinos in the entertainment industry. (AP Photo/Jason Redmond)

LAST year "reality" TV starlet Brandi Glanville claimed to have had a roll in the hay with actor Gerard Butler, and she rated him "11 out of 10." He, when asked about it, responded "who's Brandi Glanville?"

Now he tells Howard Stern they did indeed hook up. And he explains that flippant response:

They met at a beach party and "had a little fun" one afternoon, he said, but later he issued the "who's Brandi Glanville?" line "because one, I didn't know her last name, and two, I didn't know she was a celebrity, and I didn't know she was going to (bad word) tell people about it."

He's 43. she's 40.

The One... for now

MORE Butler: A reporter from extratv.com asked the actor if he's getting serious about his current girlfriend, Romanian model Madalina Ghenea. Could she be The One?

His answer: "She's amazing. I'm having fun. I'm very lucky, she's a great girl."

In other words, "no".

A Kink in the plans

JAMES Franco says he lost some endorsement deals because he produced a documentary, Kink, about a hardcore-porn studio, and another, Interior: Leather Bar, about a gay bar.

The films "did get a lot of praise," he told Attitude mag, but there was a downside:

"I was supposed to do a commercial with this company and they pulled out because they... didn't like the subject matter of the films. It was a champagne company. You'd think they'd be grown up enough..."

He lost a car-company gig, too, he added.

He's 34.

Wilde romance

OLIVIA Wilde tells Marie Claire mag that when she first met Jason Sudeikis, now her fiancé, she wasn't optimistic.

"I thought, 'He won't be interested in me; I'm not a contender'... He's a brilliant actor with a brain like lightning. I thought 'I'm not beautiful enough or his type'."

They met in 2011, on the set of Saturday Night Live.

She's 29. He's 37.

Coal miner's dater

ELIN Nordegren, formerly married to Tiger Woods, is dating West Virginia coal zillionaire Chris Cline, says the N.Y. Post They're neighbours in Florida. (What, you thought a zillionaire would live in West Virginia?)

He's 53, she's 33.

A new Day

THE rock star life: With Green Day about to resume their tour, Billie Joe Armstrong has told Rolling Stone what led to his on-stage guitar-smashing episode in Las Vegas in September, when he was babbling about not being Justin Bieber, or something.

Turns out - who knew? - he was deeply into prescription drugs, plus booze. His agent and his wife sent him to rehab.

"I couldn't predict where I was going to end up at the end of the night," he told the mag. "I'd wake up in a strange house on a couch ... It was a complete blackout."

He's 41.

Chariot of the Gaga

SURE, Lady Gaga's hip surgery forced her to cancel much of her world tour, but nothing can stop her from seeking world domination through publicity.

She now has a convertible reclining wheelchair with gold-plated spokes on the wheels.

The N.Y. Post says she hired design-world star Ken Borochove, and he gave "the chariot" a black leather seat, a removable canopy, etc. No cost figure was given.

Sing it, Tina

REPORTERS (and columnists) are still trying to milk something out of Taylor Swift complaining about the joke Tina Fey and Amy Poehler made at the Golden Globes.

And it worked: prompted by a scribe, Tina claimed the other day that she's thinking about writing a musical number, Swift-style, about the whole squabble. "I could do a song. I could do a whole song about it."

Game over

TO the surprise of nobody, Miley Cyrus and Hunger Games star Liam Hemsworth have ended their engagement. He's gone home to Australia.

There have been he's-fooling-around rumours for month, we've seen sulky behavior from her, and the internet has been full of stuff about her being a party animal and him not so much.

She's 20. He's 23.

She's a writer... honest

MOMS! Want to keep your family "chic and healthy"? Jessica Alba can help.

She has written a book on exactly that topic, and is now out doing the publicity rounds for it. It's called The Honest Life, sort of in parallel with The Honest Company, which she started last year to sell "natural and eco-friendly products" for the home.

The book is billed as "Jessica's collection of tips and tricks for making natural living fun, real, and stylish" and she says it will make your loved ones "chic and healthy".

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